Illustrated History, Comprising in a Condensed Form a History of the United States, a Geography of the Western Continent, and the Chief Objects of Interest on the Eastern Continent, Including a Hihstorical and Descriptive Sketch of the Holy LandJ. H. Clark & Company, 1870 - 435 páginas |
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... extending within a few hundred leagues of Europe . Pieces of wood , strangely carved , had been picked up by sailors in the unknown ocean . Upon one island were found the bodies of two men totally different in appearance from the ...
... extending within a few hundred leagues of Europe . Pieces of wood , strangely carved , had been picked up by sailors in the unknown ocean . Upon one island were found the bodies of two men totally different in appearance from the ...
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... extend the right of voting to those who were not church members , to take the oath of allegiance , and to tolerate the church of England . Scarcely were these troubles ended when the colonists were involved in a long and bloody war ...
... extend the right of voting to those who were not church members , to take the oath of allegiance , and to tolerate the church of England . Scarcely were these troubles ended when the colonists were involved in a long and bloody war ...
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... strife ensued between England and France respecting the possession of the new territory , which did not end until 1604. The English then claimed a tract of country extending from Halifax , Nova Scotia , on the north THE SOUTHERN STATES .
... strife ensued between England and France respecting the possession of the new territory , which did not end until 1604. The English then claimed a tract of country extending from Halifax , Nova Scotia , on the north THE SOUTHERN STATES .
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W. S. Clark. extending from Halifax , Nova Scotia , on the north , to Cape Fear , North Carolina , on the south . A district , extending from the mouth of the Potomac river to Cape Fear , was granted to an association of merchants and ...
W. S. Clark. extending from Halifax , Nova Scotia , on the north , to Cape Fear , North Carolina , on the south . A district , extending from the mouth of the Potomac river to Cape Fear , was granted to an association of merchants and ...
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... extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us . We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emi- gration and settlement here . We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , and we have conjured them by the ties of our ...
... extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us . We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emi- gration and settlement here . We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , and we have conjured them by the ties of our ...
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Página 135 - ... that the executive will on the first day of january aforesaid by proclamation designate the states and parts of states if any in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the united states and the fact that any state or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the congress of the united states by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 123 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Página 134 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Página 131 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 110 - He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Página 124 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Página 8 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
Página 109 - He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Página 123 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Página 135 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans ; Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...